Harvester-reel.



No. 665,4". Patented Jan. 8, HM. A. W. DAWSON. HARVESTER REEL. IApp'lieation filed Mar. 21, 1900.\

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A. W. DAWSON.

'HABVES'TER REEL.

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HARVESTER REEL.

(Application filed Mar. 21, 1900.)

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I I I I I l I I I I ll Fill w NITED STATES ATENT FFICE.

ALVA W. DAWSON, OF WINCHESTER, ILLINOIS, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF TO T. B. DAWSON, OF SAME PLACE.

HARVESTER-REEL.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 665,411, dated January 8, 1901.

Application filed March 21, 1900. Serial No. 9,559. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern: standard,thelatterbeingindicated in section. Be it known that I, ALVA W. DAWSON, a Fig.7 is adetail perspective view of the hinged citizen-of the United States, residing at Winsupporting-plate for the reel-standard. Fig. v chester, in the county of Scott and State of Sis a detail vertical sectional view through 5 Illinois, have invented anew and useful Harthe supporting-casting, the hinged supportvesting-Reel, of which the following isa speciing-plate, and the reel-standard. Fig. 9 is a fication. detail perspective view of the upper portion Myinvention is an improved harvester-reel of the standard which supports the reel-adadapted primarily for use on a harvester of justing lever, a portion of said lever, and the IO the class in which the platform is hinged to sliding supporting-plate to which the latter the frame of the grain-elevator and adapted is fulcrulned and which serves to connect said to be swu ngto a vertical position, and thereby lever to said standard and permit said lever folded to reduce the size of the harvester and to be readily unshipped therefrom. Fig. 10 render the same compact and adapt it to be is a detail perspective view of said sliding I 5 stored in a comparatively small space when fulcrum-plate.

the harvester is not in use. In the construction of my improved har- One object of my invention is to provide a vester-reel I provide a pair of hub-spiders reel which is adapted to be compactly folded 1, which are secured on the reel-shaft 2 and when not in use. adapted to rotate therewith. The reel-arms 20 A further object of my invention is to pro- 3 are each formed of a short inner section 4, videareel-standard and connections whereby an intermediate section 5, which is hinged the reel is adapted to be swung, when folded, thereto, as at 6, and permitted to be turned to a position at right angles to its operative thereon in one direction, and an outer section position and transversely disposed on the har- 7, which is hinged to the outer end of the in- 25 vester between the grain-elevator and the termediate section, as at 8, and adapted to platform when the latter is folded or turned be turned. or folded on said intermediate secto a vertical position. tion in the reverse direction. The said hinged A further object of my invention is to prosections of the reel-arms are provided at their vide means whereby the lever for adjusting respective ends with shoulders 9, which are 30 the reel may be readily unshipped from its disposed on one side of their respective pivsupporting-standard to permit the folded reel ots, said shoulders contacting with each other to be swung rearward on the harvester. when the said reel-arms are extended in a With these and other objects in view my straight line. To the intermediate section 5 invention consists in the peculiar construcof each reel-arm, on one side thereof, is se- 3 5 tion and combination of devices hereinafter cured a stiffening-bar 10, which is preferably fully set forth, and pointed out in the claims. a flat spring-bar and the ends of which ex- In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is tend beyond the joints of the reel-arm. Said a perspective view of a harvester-reel and its stiffening spring-bar is provided at its inner operating connections embodying my in1- end with a rightangled stop 11, which is o provements, a portion of the harvester being adapted to engage a shoulder 12, formed in indicated in dotted lines. Fig. 2 is adiagramthe proximate side of the inner section 4 of matic top plan view of the same. Fig. 3 is a the reel-arm, when the intermediate section detail elevation, partly in section, showing 5 is extended in line with the said inner seethe reel-shaft, the spider-hubs thereon, and tion 4:, as shown in detail in Figs. 3 and 5, 5 45 the jointed folding radial arms. Fig. 4 is a and when the said intermediate section 5 is similar View of the same when completely turned on its pivot or hinge to a position parfolded. Fig. 5 is a detail perspective view of allel with the reel-shaft and at right angles one of the jointed folding reel-arms, showing to the inner section 4 said stop 11 bears the two outer sections thereof folded together. against one side of the said section 4, as illus- 50 Fig. 6 is a detail top plan view of the suptrated in detail in Fig. 4. The spring-bar 10 porting-casting and hinged plate for the reelis provided at a suitable distance from its outer end at a pointwithin the joint between the sections 5 7 of the reel-arm with a rightangled lug 13, which bears against the outer side of the section 7 when the latteris folded against the section 5, as shown in Fig. 3, and the said lugis provided on its inner side with a stop-flange 14, which when the said section 7 is thus folded against the said section 5 engages the outer side of said section 7 and locks the same in said position. The said spring-bar 10 is further provided near its outer end at a point beyond the hinged joint 9 with a laterally-extending lug 15, which is similarly provided with a stop-flange 16,which is adapted to engage the opposite side of the section 7 when the latter is extended outward in line with the section 5 and lock the same in said extended position. It will be readily understood that as the bar 10 is a spring-bar centrally fastened to the intermediate section 5 and free at its ends the stops at the ends of said spring-bar may be readily disengaged from the sections 4 7 of the reelarm to permit said reel-arm to be folded or extended as may be required and to lock said jointed sections of the reel-arm in position when the same are folded.

The reel-bars 17 are pivotally connected to the outer ends of the outer sections of the jointed reel-arms, as at 18, and it will be readily understood that by means of the hinged or pivotally-jointed members of the reel-arm and the pivotal connections between the outer sections of the latter and the reel-bars said reel-bars when said reel-arms are folded inward are disposed within a short distance of the reel-shaft, and hence the reel is adapted tobe compactly folded when the same is not in use, so as to be readily disposed out of the way when stored.

The bearing and supporting bracket 19 at the inner end of the reel-shaft, the vertical standard 20, which supports said bracket and on which said bracket is adapted to be moved, so as to adjust the reel with relation to the standing grain, the lever 21 for adjusting said reel and the supporting-standard 22 for said lever, and operating counter-shaft 23, geared to the reel-shaft,as at 24:,and to a powershaft, as at 25, are not, broadly, of my invention, and the general features thereof are familiar to those skilled in harvesting machinery of this class; but in the operative organization of my improved folding reel I have provided certain novel constructions and combinations whereby the reel may be moved forward by tilting or inclining the standard 20 and correspondingly tilting or inclining the counter-shaft 23 and leverstandard 22 when the reel is in operation in connection with the harvesting-machine and whereby when the reel is folded compactly the same may be swung rearwardly over the harvester-platform to a position at right angles to its operativeposition and between the grain-elevator and the harvesterplatform when the latter is folded upward to adapt the harvesting-machine to be compactly disposed for storage or shipping purposes, which novel construction and combination of devices I describe as follows:

To the supporting-casting26, which constitutes a portion of the framing of the harvesting-machine and which per se is not of my invention, is hinged or pivotally connected a supportingplate 27, as at 23, the pivotal connection between said plate and said supporting-casting being at the front end of said plate, whereby the same may be turned forwardly from the supportirig-casting to incline the reel-standard 20, which is attached to said plate, as presently described, to any appropriate angle when adjusting the reel. The said plate is substantially of quadrant form in top plan, as shown in Fig. 6, and is provided with a quarter-circular guide-slot 28, the latter being concentric with the counter-shaft 23, which is adapted in the usual manner known to those skilled in the construction of machines of this class to be tilted and adjusted with the reel standard and maintained at all times in parallel relation thereto.

In the lower end of the reel-standard 20 is a spindle 29, which is secured therein by a transverse bolt or rivet, as at 30, the depending shank 31 of said spindle being disposed in the curved slot 28 and guided and supported and adapted to be moved therein, hence adapting the reel-standard for axial adjustment in said supporting-guide in a curved line, which is concentric with the operating counter-shaft 23 of the reel. A nut or bur 32 is screwed to the lower threaded end of the spindle, which forms the base of the reel-standard, and said nut orbur serves to secure said reel-standard firmly on the supporting-plate 27, while permitting said standard to be axially adjusted on said supportingplate, as hereinbefore described. It will be understood that by thus adapting the reelstandard to be axially adjusted in a curved line concentric with the operating countershaft 23, the latter not being capable of axial adjustment, the reel when folded is adapted to be swung rearward over the harvesterplatform and disposed at right angles thereto, as and for the purpose hereinbefore described. To enable the reel to be thus disposed, it is, however, necessary to provide means to permit the adjusting-lever 21 to be readily unshipped from the lever-standard 22, and to accomplish this end I have devised a plate 33, which is provided on one side with parallel guides and keepers 34, whereby the said plate maybe attached'to said lever-standard and is adapted to be moved endwise on said lever-standard and to be entirely Withdrawn from the upper end of said lever-standard by a simple movement of the lever 21, which is fulcrumed to the said plate, as at 35, on a stud that projects from the side of said plate opposite the guides and keepers 34. Hence the plate 33 and the lever 21, to which it is Its attached, may-be readily drawn clear of the end of the standard 22 to unship the said lever 21, the brace-bar 36 being first detached from the upper end of said standard 22, as shown in Fig. 9. When thus unshipped from the standard 22, said lever 21 may be folded against the reel-standard 20, and said standard 22 and its hinged or pivotally-connected brace-bar 36 may be folded or turned to a substantially horizontal position on the machine-frame.

The connection between the brace-bar 36 and the machine is the usual bolt, pin, or key 36, operating in one of the series of adjusting-openings 36, with which the bracebar is provided, as is usual in similar devices in machines of this class, to enable the standard 20 and counter-shaft 23 to be tilted forward or rearward, as may be required to adjust the reel, and to be secured when thus tilted.

A supporting-bracket 36 the upper side of which is forked, as shown, is secured at a suitable point on the frame of the harvestingmachine and adapted to receive the lever 21 and support the same when the harvesterreel is transversely disposed on the harvester and the said lever 21 is disposed parallel with the front side of the harvester.

A segment-plate 37, such as is universally used in connection with a hand-lever in machines of this class, is employed to lock the hand-lever 22. Said segment-plate and said hand-lever may be attached to any appropriate portion of the harvester-frame, as will be apparent to those skilled in machines of this class. Usually they are attached to the bar which supports the seat for the driver.

Having thus described my invention, I claim 1. In a harvester-reel, the combination of a jointed reel-arm adapted to be folded, a spring-arn1 secured to one section of thejointed reel-arm and overlapping the joints thereof and having stops to engage and lock the sections of the jointed reel-arm, substantially as described.

2. In aharvester-reel, the combination with a counter-shaft, a reel-standard carrying the reel, the shaft of which is geared to and driven by the countershaft,and a supporting element for said reel-standard having a curved guide, concentric with the counter-shaft, in which the base of said standard is secured and adapted to move, for the purpose set forth, substantially as described.

3. In a harvester-reel, the combination with a jointed reel-arm, an overlapping locking and stiffening member forming a spring and having stops to engage and lock the sections of the jointed reel-arm, substantially as described.

4. In a harvester-reel, the combination with the reel-shaft, of the spider-hubs, the jointed reel-arms,the overlapping locking and stifiening members on said jointed reel-arms, each stiffening member forming a spring and having stops to engage and lock the sections of the jointed reel arms for the purpose set forth, and the reel-bars pivotally connected to the outer ends of said reel-arms, substantially as described.

5. In aharvester-reel, the combination with a jointed reel-arm comprising an inner an intermediate, and an outer section, said sections hinged or pivotally jointed together and having coacting shoulders adapted to contact when said sections are extended, and means to lock said sections together, substantially as described.

6. In a harvester-reel, the combination of a supporting element, a plate hinged thereto, a reel-standard mounted on said hinged plate, a curved supporting-guide, whereby said reelstandard is adapted for movement in acurved line, and a counter-shaft geared to said reel, and to which said curved standard-guide is concentric, substantially as described.

7. In a harvester-reel, the combination of a reel-supporting standard and means whereby the same may be turned to dispose the reel transversely on the harvester, an adjusting- .lever for the reel, a standard for said adjusting-lever, and means whereby said adj ustinglever may be unshipped from said standard substantially as described.

8. In a harvester-reel, the combination of a reel-supporting standard and means whereby the same may be turned to dispose the reel transversely on the harvester, an adjustinglever for the reel, a standard for said adjusting-lever, and a plate adapted to be readily attached to and unshipped from said leversupporting standard, substantially as described.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my own I have hereto affixed my signature in the presence of two witnesses.

ALVA W. DAWSON.

Witnesses:

T. J. PRIEST, JOHN B. LASHMETT. 

